7 Gifts: Poetry as a Pathway for Renewal with John Fox

Name: 7 Gifts: Poetry as a Pathway for Renewal with John Fox
Start: 2024-12-08T10:00:00-08:00
End: 2024-12-08T16:00:00-08:00
Location: Rush Ranch

Schedule

Sun Dec 08 2024 at 10:00 am to 04:00 pm

UTC-08:00

Location

Rush Ranch | Suisun City, CA

Expressive arts offer a way to connect to your authentic self and a range of emotions including joy, passion, anger, and sadness. Poetry and creative writing are proven, effective tools for reflection and processing emotions on your journey toward holistic wellness.
In a poetry circle, poems are read out loud with the group to inspire discussion, and writing prompts. After each writing exercise, you are invited to read your poems to one another. This process allows you to rewrite internal dialogues and narratives, while also bringing about a feeling of being seen, deeply listened to, and connected to community.
Our facilitator, John Fox, PPM, will guide us through “seven gifts” of renewal given to us by poetry and poem-making to serve as encouragement and catalyst for your journey toward holistic wellness. These gifts and this renewal are accessible in the midst of living this life—with its sorrow and joy, travail and adventure, the daily experience of being human and a deeper spiritual current that speaks to a greater mystery. Poetry provides a perspective and felt experience that can be recognized and received as a gift.
Seven Gifts
✨ Discovery of meaning and connection
✨ Practicing mindfulness
✨ Encourages embodiment
✨ Invites play and imagination
✨ Holding space for questions
✨ Embracing compassion, vulnerability and courage
✨ A gift shared with another
This workshop will include gentle, evocative and poignant writing prompts that will reveal to us these gifts. No prior experience with poem-making is necessary—and “beginner’s mind” is encouraged among all participants.
"John Fox is the most sensitive and effective teacher of poetic medicine I know. He listens to both poem and person deeply, and he is a master at guiding others."
“This program got me in touch with a part of myself that I was longing to get in touch with. It gave me a safe place to be creative,
to access my depth through creativity.”
"I learned to hold space, not only for others but for myself."
Crescent Moon Center's mission is to build a community of support around people in recovery from, or at risk for, alcohol and drug dependency, and those facing life challenges due to stress, trauma, and disability. Through proven experiential art and equine-assisted learning workshops, followed by ongoing community engagement and support, Crescent Moon Center offers an empowering path toward healing, resilience, and growth.
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